ZilverHaylide

Well, up to you. Scanner reviews: https://www.filmscanner.info/en/FilmscannerTestberichte.html Considerations: 1) a flatbed scanner that also has film scanning capability will most definitely NOT ...

I've never before seen so many lens-shaped novelty mugs, all together!

Beer steins, too!

To elaborate (quite a bit!) on what's been said: Modern lenses are usually considerably better than 40 or 50 year old ones. That said, if you want to go that route: An FD-mount lens is actually not ...

Because people seriously into photographic gear are masochists!

Very nice! Your 3D subject brings to mind another issue, if the OP is also interested in other uses beyond his film digitizing. How do his two cameras compare in focus bracketing and/or stacking ...

I believe (from theoretical considerations, not personal experience (I have an A7Riv and a Sony macro for it, not either of the Panasonic cameras or macro lenses you are considering)) that the ...

"Also, Chinese stuff never lasts!"
-- Alex hwang

Don't know if you are being serious or sarcastic. I've seen some junk, and also some excellent stuff, from China.

The biggest reason I currently...

Despite some back problems, I was generally doing OK, until your film photography series.

Now, after all these articles instructing in the use of film, film cameras, and film processing, I feel...

Not necessarily a blend of color and B&W. The way I understand some of the pieces written about the Leica monochrome camera(s) for several of the Huawei phones, it's genuine B&W, and in SOME of ...

I'm not a materials engineer but I would NOT scribe a line. A scribe is often what's done to deliberately break something (i.e. glass) at that point.

@Mark Banas:

Maybe use a 70-200mm (at the 200mm end) based on that being a lens in common use, and that is frequently used handheld. Most also have IS built in. I'd expect a tripod to produce...

@Eric Hensel:

A valid point. I can only say that when I bought an aluminum Gitzo about 20 years ago, I auditioned multiple tripods by administering a finger "tap test" to the legs of multiple...

Comparing the vibration damping test results between this and the recently tested Gitzo, there's a huge difference. What good is the money savings from buying this, if it is appreciably worse in...

Well, without selling your house there is the Fuji 100S. 100MP, 400MP-equivalent if you use it in pixel-shift mode. Still expensive, but at $6500 (less on sale) for the body, a bargain for "medium ...

Ah, well, if you've got some Nikon glass, that could easily swing the advantage over to a Nikon body. However, be aware that if any of your Nikon glass is DX, then it will of course mostly be ...

Yes, I meant a prime in the 120-150mm range. I used the somewhat-arbitrarily expanded range, rather than just limit my desire to 135mm, because anything down to about 120mm is enough longer than...

Sony user here (A7Riv), so bias towards them. YMMV. I believe the A7Rii can be had new on sale for $1200, the Sony FE 50mm f/2.8 macro is about $500 new. Yes, a bit over your budget, but you get ...

Hoping for a relatively-small 50mm f/1.4 for Sony full-frame E-mount. (The way they shrunk the DSLR 85mm down for mirrorless).

Would also really like an optically-very-good, well-built small...

"The NYT quotes Wack as saying that he found Kodak’s decision to remove the post ‘notable in part because its products have been used for decades to document political events’".

That was then,...

Olympus Tough TG-Tracker? https://www.getolympus.com/us/en/tg-tracker.html